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A volunteer street medic who goes by the name Rat is shown outside the ICE protests Oct. 18, 2025 | KARINA BROWN

Federal agents keep deploying tear gas near kids. We have no idea what it does to their health.

Exposure to chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects.

Feb 24

Medical bill | SHUTTERSTOCK

Bill to bar medical debt from credit reports poised to pass Oregon Legislature

Democrats, with a few Republicans, have approved Senate Bill 605 in successive votes

Jun 3, 2025
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CMH hospital in Astoria, Ore., is building a tsunami evacuation facility into its $300 million expansion.

Construction crews broke ground on a new building for Columbia Memorial Hospital in fall 2024. The new facility is budgeted at $300 million and will include a rooftop refuge to withstand a tsunami, accommodating up to 1,9 00 people . | HANNAH NORMAN | KFF HEALTH NEWS

Astoria hospital races to build a tsunami shelter as FEMA fights to cut its funding

First, the federal agency issued a $14 million resilience grant to CMH in Astoria, then, under the second Trump administration, it rescinded it. Now a judge has ruled that it was illegal for the agency to cut the resilience program without congressional consent.

Dec 18, 2025

The Oregon Health Authority headquarters in Salem | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

State not recovering costs for new Oregon merger reviews

Fees paid by companies fall far short of covering expenses of program set up to protect patients, consumers

Jun 11, 2024
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Oregon task force ends work without unity on recommendations about raising alcohol taxes

A legislative task force studying the public health impacts of alcohol abuse and whether to raise alcohol taxes for addiction treatment has ended its work without endorsing any specific recommendations.

Dec 19, 2024

The Capitol Building in Salem, Ore., on March 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon Democrats consider watering down abortion, gun bills in order to get Senate Republicans to return

After nearly 10 hours of negotiations over the weekend, top lawmakers arrived at a tentative framework for rescuing the 2023 session. Both sides stress a deal hasn’t been made.

Jun 13, 2023

Lawmakers Skeptical of State’s Demand that CCOs Return $100 Million

Sen. Alan Bates plans to meet with Gov. Kate Brown as a controversy has erupted over the revised 2015 payments to coordinated care organizations that cut the Medicaid program rather than give the organizations the 3.4 percent increase promised. The state’s order to FamilyCare that it return 9 percent of its current revenues -- $55 million -- would wipe out its profit for the year, and put it on rocky footing going forward. Rep. Mitch Greenlick agreed with some of the calculations but argued that the rates for the Medicaid expansion were more arbitrary and could threaten the CCOs’ ability to innovate and transform the delivery system.

Sep 30, 2015

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